Marriott Points Redemption Chart 2026: There Isn't One — Here's the Real Range
Marriott deleted its award chart four years ago. If you're searching for one, here's what replaced it, what nights actually cost now, and the thirty-second calculation that does the job the chart used to do.
If you came here looking for a Marriott Bonvoy award chart, the honest answer is the one nobody puts in a headline: there is no chart, and there hasn't been one since March 29, 2022.
That is not a dodge. It's the single most useful fact about redeeming Marriott points in 2026, and it's the reason most "Marriott redemption chart" pages you'll find are either reprinting a chart that expired four years ago or quietly making numbers up.
What you can have instead is a range — a realistic sense of what a night costs by brand tier, the old chart it replaced so you can see how far prices have moved, and the calculation that tells you whether any specific night is worth your points. That's what this page is.
What changed in 2022, and why "chart" searches now mean "range"
Marriott announced the change on October 26, 2021 and it took effect on March 29, 2022. The program replaced Categories 1–8 and their off-peak/standard/peak levels with what it calls flexible point redemption rates — award prices that move with cash demand, the way airfare does.
The change landed in two steps, which is why plenty of travelers didn't notice it until much later:
- March 2022 – December 2022: the chart was formally gone, but more than 97% of properties still priced within the old off-peak-to-peak band. In practice you were still paying chart prices.
- From 2023: those limits came off entirely. Award prices began adjusting daily, with no published minimum and no published maximum.
That second step is the one that matters. Under the old chart, a standard room could never cost more than 100,000 points — Category 8, peak season, full stop. With no ceiling, prices at the top of the portfolio kept climbing: The Points Guy traced standard-room maximums from 60,000 points in 2018 to 100,000, then 120,000, and reported nights priced at 150,000 points at properties including The Ritz-Carlton Maldives, the St. Regis Maldives and the St. Regis New York.
So when people search "Marriott points redemption chart," what they actually need is a range and a method. Marriott's own booking engine is the only authoritative price, and it only quotes you one night at a time.
The chart Marriott retired (for reference)
This was the final Marriott award chart, in effect through March 29, 2022. It no longer governs anything — but it's the best available baseline for judging how much a given tier of hotel has moved since.
| Category | Off-Peak | Standard | Peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,000 | 7,500 | 10,000 |
| 2 | 10,000 | 12,500 | 15,000 |
| 3 | 15,000 | 17,500 | 20,000 |
| 4 | 20,000 | 25,000 | 30,000 |
| 5 | 30,000 | 35,000 | 40,000 |
| 6 | 40,000 | 50,000 | 60,000 |
| 7 | 50,000 | 60,000 | 70,000 |
| 8 | 70,000 | 85,000 | 100,000 |
Two things are worth noticing. The whole program lived between 5,000 and 100,000 points — a range you could hold in your head. And the spread within a category was narrow: Category 5 ran 30,000 to 40,000, a 33% swing between the cheapest and most expensive night of the year. Dynamic pricing widened both.
What a Marriott night actually costs in 2026
Here is the practical replacement for the chart — realistic points-per-night ranges by brand tier, with the cash rates those nights typically carry and the value per point that implies.
| Brand tier | Typical brands | Points per night | Typical cash rate | Value per point | Old chart band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Select service | Courtyard, Fairfield Inn, Four Points, Aloft, Moxy, SpringHill Suites | 15,000–25,000 | $120–$180 | ~0.7¢ | Category 3–4 |
| Full service | Westin, Sheraton, Marriott Hotels, Delta, Renaissance, Le Méridien | 30,000–50,000 | $250–$400 | ~0.8¢ | Category 5–6 |
| All-inclusive resorts | Marriott's all-inclusive collection | 50,000–85,000 | $450–$800+ | ~0.9–1.0¢ | Category 6–8 |
| Luxury | The Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, JW Marriott, W, EDITION, The Luxury Collection | 60,000–100,000 | $600–$1,200 | ~0.9–1.2¢ | Category 7–8 |
| Luxury flagships | Ritz-Carlton Maldives, St. Regis Maldives, St. Regis New York | up to 150,000 reported | — | — | above the old chart entirely |
How to read this table. The points and cash figures are WanderWise's audited property-type ranges, measured on Courtyard and Fairfield Inn (select service), Westin and Sheraton (full service), and The Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis (luxury) — the same numbers used in our complete Marriott Bonvoy guide. Other brands listed in each row sit in the same service class and price similarly, but they were not separately measured. The "old chart band" column is arithmetic: it's simply where each range would have fallen on the retired chart above. The 150,000-point figure is The Points Guy's reporting on flagship luxury resorts, not a cap — Marriott publishes no maximum, so treat the top of every row as typical, not guaranteed.
The floor is worth calling out too. The Points Guy describes the program's practical range as starting around 10,000 points a night, which is roughly where the old Category 2 off-peak rate sat. Cheap Marriott nights still exist; they're just no longer predictable by category.
The one calculation that replaced the chart
An award chart answered one question: is this a fair price? Without a chart, you answer it yourself, and it takes about thirty seconds.
Cash rate ÷ points price = cents per point. Above ~0.9¢ → book with points. Below ~0.7¢ → pay cash.
A Marriott Bonvoy point is worth roughly 0.7 to 0.9 cents. The Points Guy values them at 0.8 cents as of July 2026; NerdWallet puts them at 0.7 cents. At that baseline:
| Your points | Worth on hotel stays |
|---|---|
| 1,000 | $7–$9 |
| 3,000 | $21–$27 |
| 10,000 | $70–$90 |
| 50,000 | $350–$450 |
| 100,000 | $700–$900 |
Run it on your own balance with our Marriott Points Value Calculator, which does the math for any amount across every redemption type.
Two worked examples, using the tiers above:
- A Westin at 35,000 points against a $310 cash rate → 31,000¢ ÷ 35,000 = 0.89¢ per point. Right at the top of the normal band. Book it with points.
- A Courtyard at 25,000 points against a $135 cash rate → 13,500¢ ÷ 25,000 = 0.54¢ per point. Well below the band. Pay cash and keep the points for something better.
Same program, same week, nearly a 2x difference in what your points are worth. That gap is exactly what the chart used to hide.
When points beat cash at Marriott
Dynamic pricing did not remove every structural advantage. Four still hold:
1. Fifth night free. Book five consecutive award nights and the fifth costs zero points. Marriott kept this benefit through the transition to dynamic pricing, and it is an automatic 20% discount on longer stays — the single most reliable way to lift your cents per point. A five-night stay at 40,000 points a night costs 160,000, not 200,000, which turns a 0.8¢ redemption into a 1.0¢ one.
2. Free Night Awards, especially since March 2026. Free Night Awards come in fixed tiers — 35,000, 50,000 and 85,000 points are the common ones — and on March 12, 2026 Marriott raised the amount you can add to one from 15,000 to 25,000 points. That means a 35,000-point certificate now reaches a night priced up to 60,000 points, and an 85,000-point certificate reaches 110,000. Certificates ignore the cents-per-point math entirely, so aim them at the most expensive night of your stay.
3. Expensive cash markets. The value-per-point column above rises as you move up the table — luxury properties tend to return more per point than select-service ones. That is the opposite of most travelers' instinct, and it's the clearest surviving edge in the program.
4. Nights where the cash rate has spiked. Because award prices track cash rates rather than mirroring them exactly, a conference week or a holiday weekend occasionally leaves the points price lagging the cash price. Those are the nights worth checking.
The mirror image is also true: avoid redeeming Marriott points for gift cards, merchandise or airline transfers. All three land under a cent per point, and gift cards run roughly half the value of a hotel night. Our complete Marriott Bonvoy guide walks through each of those in detail.
How Marriott compares to programs that still publish a chart
Marriott is not alone — Hilton and IHG also price dynamically — but it isn't universal. World of Hyatt still publishes a chart, with eight categories and five price levels, and every night is one of those published numbers. Hyatt devalued that chart in May 2026 and the top of it now reaches 75,000 points, which is a real hit. But a painful published ceiling is still a ceiling. See our Hyatt award chart breakdown for the full table.
That difference is why per-point valuations diverge so sharply between the two programs, and why "how many points is this?" is a question you can answer in advance at Hyatt and only at the booking screen at Marriott. Our Points Value Index ranks every major currency on the same basis, and the Points & Miles Devaluation Tracker logs each move as it happens.
The bottom line
There is no Marriott points redemption chart in 2026, and any page showing you one is showing you 2022. What's left is a range — about 10,000 points a night at the bottom to 100,000 and beyond at the top — and a calculation: cash rate divided by points price, with 0.7 to 0.9 cents as the bar to clear.
That's a worse deal than a chart, and it's more work. But it also means the good redemptions are still there for anyone willing to spend thirty seconds checking. Under the old chart, the price was the price. Now it's a question — and questions can be answered in your favor.
Published September 10, 2026. Sources: the retired Category 1–8 award chart and the March 29, 2022 elimination date via Upgraded Points and One Mile at a Time; the 150,000-point flagship pricing and the 0.8¢ valuation via The Points Guy; the 0.7¢ valuation via NerdWallet; the March 12, 2026 Free Night Award top-off increase via Upgraded Points. Property-tier points and cash ranges are WanderWise's own audited figures. Marriott publishes no award chart and no price cap; always confirm the points price for your dates on marriott.com. Affiliate disclosure: WanderWise earns a commission when you apply through our links; it never affects our analysis. Editorial policy →